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Pomona is the fifth largest city in Los Angeles County. It is located on the eastern border of LA County, in between the Inland Empire and the San Gabriel Valley. The city has a total area of 22.8 sq. miles. Pomona is approximately 27 miles east of Los Angeles, 25 miles north of Santa Ana, 31 miles west of Riverside, and 37 miles west of San Bernardino.
"Pomona" was the winning entry in a contest to name the city. It is the name of the ancient Roman goddess of fruit. It was incorporated in 1888. In 2005, Pomona citizens elected Norma Torres, the first woman of Guatemalan heritage to be elected to a mayoral post outside of Guatemala. Since the 1980s, Pomona's newest neighborhood Phillips Ranch, experienced rapid growth with homes still being built in the hilly area between Downtown and Diamond Bar. Northern Pomona has seen some gentrification with additional housing units added and revamped streetscapes.
According to the 2008 US Census, the total population of Pomona is 150,759 people. 71.3% of residents have some makeup of Hispanic, 40.8% of residents are considered White, 6.8% are Asian, and 7.3% are Black or African American. 35.7% of residents are foreign born, and 67.7% speak a language other than English in the home. 13% of residents have a bachelor's degree or higher, and 62.5% of residents have a high school degree. 13.4% of families and 16.2% of individuals live below the poverty line.
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The next time Texas coach Mack Brown sees Joey Harrington, the memory shouldn't be quite so painful.
David Ash added his name to the list of quarterbacks who've caught a touchdown pass in the Holiday Bowl and he also threw for one score to lead Texas to a 21-10 victory against California on Wednesday night.
Ash caught a 4-yard pass from wide receiver Jaxon Shipley in the second quarter to join BYU's Steve Young, Texas A&M's Bucky Richardson and Oregon's Harrington as quarterbacks who've caught touchdown passes in the Holiday Bowl.
The Longhorns had the ball first-and-goal when Ash handed off to running back Malcolm Brown who then handed off to Shipley as if the Longhorns were going to run a reverse. Ash slipped into the end zone and caught Shipley's pass to give Texas a 7-3 lead. Shipley has thrown three touchdown passes this season, all while lining up at wide receiver.
Brown joked on Tuesday how much it still bugged him that Harrington caught a TD pass in the Ducks' 35-30 win against Texas in the 2000 Holiday Bowl. The Oregon offensive coordinator then was Jeff Tedford, who has been Cal's coach since 2002. Harrington now works for the Longhorn Network.
Brown credited the play to co-offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin, who previously had coached and played at Boise State.
"Bryan Harsin grew up in that Boise system and that's the stuff Jeff did with Oregon back in the early 2000s," Brown said. "And it's one of the reasons why I hired Bryan. He believes in running the football, he believes in being physical, but he's got toys in the pocket that he's going to take advantage of things when he can.
"If you're not moving the ball, he's got some imagination in the offense to make a play," Brown said.
That play helped salvage a little bit of the Holiday Bowl's reputation for high-scoring, wide-open games.
"We knew they were going to throw something like that out there," Cal defensive end Trevor Guyton said. "It was only a matter of time before they did it. They got us. No excuses."
Ash had another impressive play in the third quarter when he threw a 47-yard touchdown pass to Marquise Goodwin, who made a nice over-the-shoulder catch in full stride. That gave the Longhorns a 14-10 lead.
The Longhorns (8-5) were even more impressive on defense, getting five takeaways and sacking Cal's Zach Maynard six times, both season highs.
The Golden Bears (7-6) are winless in five games against the Longhorns dating to 1959.
Texas put it away on Cody Johnson's 4-yard touchdown run on the first play of the fourth quarter, which was set up when Maynard was sacked and fumbled, which was recovered by Chris Whaley at the Cal 44. Goodwin ran for 37 yards and Johnson had a 3-yard gain before his touchdown run.
Cal briefly took the lead at 10-7 after Isi Sofele's 6-yard run to cap the opening drive of the second half.
Ash's long TD pass to Goodwin came four plays into the next Texas drive.
"We had our chances and gave the ball away," Tedford said.
Cal fumbled six times, losing four. The other turnover was an interception by Quandre Diggs, the younger brother of former Texas star cornerback and current San Diego Chargers starter Quentin Jammer.
"They did a good job of stripping it. They got it out today," Tedford said. "They got their hands on the ball, their hats on the ball and stripped it. There's really no explanation for something we've worked on."
Maynard was under pressure the whole game.
"We kept getting caught in second-and-long, third-and-long," the QB said. "It's hard to build a decent pass game and run game. ... It's hard to overcome those turnovers. It's hard to build momentum."


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Contact the Bexar County Sheriff's warrant division at 210-335-6030 for information pertaining to warrants.
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As indicated on the citation, you have 20 days from the date of service to file an answer with our office. We cannot calculate or give you the due date for your answer. It can be submitted to our office via eFiling, mailed or delivered in person the Bexar County Clerk's office, Attn: Civil Central Filing Department, 100 Dolorosa B: 04, San Antonio, TX 78205.
Submit your request through eFiling, mail or in person. Please include case number, address, and a fee of $1.00 per page.
The jurisdiction for a small claim is under $10,000 and you can file at one of the Justices of the Peace.
The documents in the case are sent to the Bexar County Clerk's Civil Central Filing department. The appeal means that the case will be heard by the County Court at Law Court as a new case. You will receive a notice requiring you to pay the filing fee; if the filing fee is not paid, the case will be sent back to the Justice of the Peace Court. Either party may request a hearing date. The party setting the case is responsible for notifying the other party of the date, time and location the case is set for. To set a hearing, contact the senior court operations clerk at 210-335-3175 or 210-335-3179. It is recommended that you consult an attorney or have an attorney represent you.
Bexar County Clerk's jurisdiction is up to $200,000.
County Court At Law jury cases are set on Monday's or Tuesdays following a Monday holiday.
County Court At Law non-jury cases and motions are set on Thursdays and Fridays at 9:30 AM in presiding county court room B.23.
You must submit a filing fee of $40.00 for a jury demand. Parties must attend mediation.
The filing fee for an occupational driver's license is $247.00 dollars. Consult an attorney. The clerk may not assist in the preparation of any application or petition, nor can we advise any litigant if the application is filed incorrectly. If the court does not grant the occupational license, the filing fees are not refundable.
You may obtain copies of documents by the following options:
The fee for a non-certified copy is $1.00 per page. The fee for a certified copy is $5.00 for the certification and a $1.00 per page of the document. Request for copies can be made in person, by eFiling, or by mail. Please make sure to provide the name and case file number, if available, for each request. Checks or money orders are to be made payable to: Lucy Adame-Clark, Bexar County Clerk.
Civil CasesLucy Adame-Clark, Bexar County ClerkATTN: Civil Central Filing Department100 Dolorosa, Suite 104San Antonio, TX 78205
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In order to receive a letter testamentary, a will MUST be filed and admitted to probate. To file a will for probate, please consult an attorney. The law prevents us from providing legal advice to any person. Please see the Bexar County Probate Courts website for more information.
You must contact an attorney to file a guardianship. While you may represent yourself in some lawsuits, you may not represent others. Under Texas law, only a licensed attorney may represent the interests of third-party individuals or entities, including guardianship wards and probate estates. Please see the Bexar County Probate Courts website for more information.
You can conduct name searches for probate records here.
A person may deposit their will for safekeeping with the County Clerk for a one-time fee of $5.00. The will is placed in a sealed envelope and kept in a secure storage area. The deputy clerk does not review the contents of the will. The clerk will issue a certificate of deposit for the will upon receipt. The will may be removed at any time by the Testator (person for whom the will is created). After the Testator passes, any person named on the outside of the sealed envelope, may withdraw the will upon proof of identification and proof of death of the Testator.
You may contact the Criminal Filing Department at 210-335-2238. You may also search this information using the Bexar County Clerk and District Clerk Court Records Search.
There are bulletin boards located in the Bexar County Justice Center that lists court information. You may find your name on the bulletin board and then proceed to the court listed by your name. If your name is not listed on the bulletin board, you may want to obtain assistance from the County Clerk's Criminal Filing department located in the basement of the Courthouse.
A bond forfeiture case is filed when a misdemeanor defendant failed to appear for a hearing or trial. If an answer is not filed in a timely fashion, the plaintiff may take a default judgment. For case information or citation inquiries, contact our Bond Forfeiture Department at 210-335-2237.
For Pro Se filers, a Petition for Non-Disclosure can be filed with the County Clerk's Criminal Filing Department located in the basement of the Bexar County Courthouse. The filing fee for a Petition of Non-disclosure is $260.00. (Section 411.081 Government Code and 133.154 Local Government Code) When filing, please provide the original filing as well as two copies.
Misdemeanor background checks are performed at:Bexar County Clerk's OfficeCriminal Central Filing Department100 Dolorosa, BasementSan Antonio, TX 78205The fee for a background search is $5.00 for the first 10 years and $1.00 for each additional year.
To obtain a misdemeanor background search by mail, send a letter of request including the following information:
Court cost and fines are in addition to any time served and are included in all judgments unless the judgment indicates "time and money to run concurrent".
If the case was not appealed you may contact the court reporter that was assigned to that court. If the case was appealed you can purchase a copy from the County Clerk's office if the court reporter filed a transcript.
When your case is set on the docket both you and your attorney must be present.
You may contact the County Clerk's Criminal Filing office at 210-335-2238
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George D. Marlow was born on June 8, 1941, in New York City. He graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1963 and received his law degree in 1966 from St. John's University School of Law. He served as Assistant District Attorney in Queens County from 1967 to 1971, and in Dutchess County from 1971-1975.
He began his career with the courts in 1976, serving as Law Clerk to Dutchess County Judge Albert M. Rosenblatt for three years. In 1980, while a partner at the law firm of Gellert & Cutler (now known as Gellert & Klein), Marlow became a Justice for the Town of Poughkeepsie. He was elected Family Court Judge for Dutchess County in 1984 and served until 1992, at which time he was elected Dutchess County Court Judge. Having served on that bench for six years, he was elected to the Supreme Court, 9th Judicial District, in November of 1999.
After serving for a year on the Supreme Court bench, Justice Marlow was appointed an Associate Justice of the Appellate Division, First Department, by Governor George Pataki. He served in that capacity until January of 2008, at which time he resigned from the Appellate Division to go back to Supreme Court in Dutchess County. At the same time, he was appointed Statewide Judicial Director of Ethics Education and Counsel for the Unified Court System. Justice Marlow retired from that position and from the bench in 2009 but maintained his position as Chair of the New York State Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics, having been a member of that committee since 1987. He also returned to his former law firm as Counsel.
Over the years, Justice Marlow has been active in professional organizations, committees and community activities. In addition to the Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics, he was co-chair of the Capital Case Judicial Resource Committee; member of the New York State Commission on Fiduciary Appointments; member of the Commission to Foster Public Confidence in New York State Elected Judges and the Electoral Process; member, Family Court Advisory and Rules Committee; former President, Dutchess County Bar Association; member, Board of Trustees of Vassar Brothers Medical Center; and member of the Advisory Board of the Dutchess Mediation Center.
Justice Marlow is married to Marcy Awerman Marlow. They have five grown children.
Appellate Division in Focus: Who's Who on the First Department Bench, New York Law Journal, April 24, 2001, p. 9.
New York Judge Reviews and Court Directory: 2009-2010 Edition, James Publishing Inc., Costa Mesa, CA, 2009, pp. 603-604.


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Phillies dispatch Cardinals with four-run eighth
Revere delivers go-ahead RBI before Kratz's big blast
PHILADELPHIA -- It's a manager's responsibility to consider everything during the course of the game. So when Ben Revere came to the plate with one out, the bases loaded and the score tied in the bottom of the sixth inning, Charlie Manuel went over his pinch-hitting options.
"I liked Benny there. He's our center fielder but, at the same time, in that situation there, I talked to all our coaches and we all came up with, 'He's hard to double up,'" the Phillies manager said.
Naturally, then, Revere hit into the double play.
Baseball sometimes offers second chances, though, and Revere got one two innings later. With the score tied again and one out again, this time runners on first and second, Revere singled up the middle against Cardinals closer Mitchell Boggs to drive in the game-winning run.
"I figured if I let him hit back there in the sixth, I could let him hit here. And if he'd have hit into two double plays I'd have been upset, of course," Manuel said with a laugh.
Catcher Erik Kratz hit the next pitch for a three-run homer and the Phillies broke open what had been a taut, back-and-forth game and earned a split of their four-game series against the Cardinals with a 7-3 win Sunday night at Citizens Bank Park.
"I was really ticked," Revere said of his at-bat in the sixth. "I thought that sucker was up the middle and it seemed like that ball just stuck. And the shortstop grabbed it right by the bag and stepped on it and got a double play. I just came in the clubhouse and tried to calm myself. Did a little meditation.
"Then [in the eighth] I was like, 'I've got to redeem myself right here.' And luckily I saw a pitch up and was able to drive it into center field."
But the inning was set up by a hit that didn't make it out of the infield. With one out, Michael Young extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a grounder back up the middle that deflected off Boggs' glove and rolled toward shortstop. He went to second on a single by Domonic Brown and then Revere and Kratz came up big. Manuel, however, didn't forget how different the inning could have been if Boggs had two outs and nobody on when Brown stepped to the plate.
"We hung in there and we got a break. Like I said, Young's hit off the pitcher's [glove], that was a big hit for us," the manager said.
Boggs took full responsibility.
"I should have caught that ball, most Major League pitchers catch that ball 100 percent of the time," he said. "It was right to me. I don't know what happened, I thought it was further away than it was and it caught me on the heel of the glove. But that is an out every day of the week."
It wasn't an easy win for the Phillies. Starter Kyle Kendrick gave up a one-out homer to Matt Carpenter in the first. He had runners on first and second with nobody out in both the second and the fourth. He ended up throwing 113 pitches in six innings but allowed only two runs, his 11th quality start in his last 14 outings going back to last season.
St. Louis took the lead in the top of the seventh on an unearned run made possible by second baseman Chase Utley's two-base throwing error. Utley also short-circuited a rally in the first when he either misread a fly ball to left or forgot how many outs there were. In either case, he was almost at home plate when he was doubled off second.
"I think he did [lose track]," Manuel said. "And you might never see that again. But I think that's what happened."
The Phillies came back to retie the score in the bottom of the seventh on a big pinch-hit double by Laynce Nix after a 10-pitch at-bat, scoring Kratz all the way from first.
Utley's missteps weren't the only curious sidelight to the evening. In the fourth inning, Cardinals first baseman Matt Adams dunked a single to left in front of Brown, who was playing him deep. Many in the crowd of 35,115 apparently thought he should have been able to make the play.
"No, I don't think that ball was catchable," Manuel said. "That [reaction] ain't going to bother him, though. He's strong enough to get over that."
It didn't seem to faze him. In his next two plate appearances he walked and then his single kept the winning rally alive in the eighth. When it was all over, the Phillies had scored four runs on seven pitches ... more than they'd scored in eight of their previous nine games.
That's just the kind of night it was.


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CIPS CONNECTIONSINTERVIEWS by STEPHEN IBARAKI, FCIPS, I.S.P., ITCP/IP3P, MVP, DF/NPA, CNPProfessor Gabriel Wainer, Multi-awarding Winning Top Researcher This week, Stephen Ibaraki has an exclusive interview with Professor Gabriel Wainer. Gabriel A. Wainer (SMSCS, SMIEEE) received M.Sc. (1993) and Ph.D. degrees (1998, with highest honors) from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, and Université d'Aix-Marseille III, France. After being Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of UBA, in July 2000 he joined the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, where he is now an Associate Professor. He has been a visiting scholar at ACIMS (The University of Arizona); LSIS/CNRS, University of Nice and INRIA (Sophia-Antipolis), France. He is the author of three books and over 240 research articles; he edited four other books, and helped organize over 110 conferences, including being one of the founders of SIMUTools and SimAUD. Professor Wainer is the Vice-President Publications, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the SCS. He is also the Chair of the Ottawa Center of The McLeod Institute of Simulation Sciences. He is Special Issues Editor of SIMULATION, member of the Editorial Board of Wireless Networks (Elsevier), Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, and International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling (Inderscience). He is the head of the Advanced Real-Time Simulation lab, located at Carleton University's Centre for advanced Simulation and Visualization (V-Sim). He has been the recipient of various awards, including the IBM Eclipse Innovation Award, SCS Leadership Award, and various Best Paper awards. He has been awarded Carleton University's Research Achievement Award (2005-2006), the First Bernard P. Zeigler DEVS Modeling and Simulation Award, and the SCS Outstanding Professional Award (2011). Further information can be found at: More about one part of Gabriel's work: The laboratory investigates different mechanisms to automate the generation of executable models, and their integration with real-time data (coming from sensors, satellites, phones, etc). The research focuses in interfacing different tools, with a focus on having simulation everywhere. This enables users to analyze massive simulation data in an intuitive and efficient fashion with increased realism, responsiveness (or interactivity), and immersion. In recent years, the lab has developed new methods to include simulation services in remote servers using RESTful Web Services. Further details can be found in http://cell-devs.sce.carleton.ca and a variety of demos and videos can be found in their YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/arslab. To listen to the interview, click on this MP3 file link The latest blog on the interview can be found in the IT Managers Connection (IMC) forum where you can provide your comments in an interactive dialogue. DISCUSSION:


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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Scientists in Zimbabwe say a fresh water crayfish brought from Australia is breeding out of control in the northern Lake Kariba, devouring the food sources of other fish and putting the nation's entire aquatic ecosystem at risk.
Officials at the Zimbabwe University lakeshore research station say the red claw crayfish, introduced a decade ago for a fish farming project, has no natural predators in the wild — crocodiles don't like them — and they produce clusters of eggs up to half the size of a tennis ball that hatch prolifically.
Baby crocodiles still feeding on insects have been observed eating the crayfish, as have Lake Kariba's piranha-like tiger fish, but they generally thrive in deeper water than the crayfish.
Chief ecologist Crispen Phiri said the exploding, migrant crayfish population is infesting rivers, dams, ponds and tanks much farther afield where "the scavenger eats everything —rotting vegetation, anything organic and micro-organisms" that other aquatic life and fish need.
The red claw crayfish, scientifically Cherax Quadricarinatus and known colloquially in Australia as the yabby, is robust and hardy and cannot be poisoned without killing other natural species, Phiri said.
It survives and multiplies in virtually any fresh water supply and though its flesh is high in protein it is not popular in the diet of ordinary Zimbabweans, even those facing food shortages in the troubled economy.
Phiri said it is not clear whether the sister crayfish, or Cherax Destructor, is infesting Lake Kariba, too. As its scientific name suggests, it is a burrower which can cause structural damage to drainage and hydroelectric installations in Kariba, one of the world's largest manmade lakes stretching about 300 kilometers (200 miles) on the Zambezi River along the northern border with neighboring Zambia.
Like professionals in most Zimbabwean institutions, the scientists are suffering acute shortages of funding. The station's only research vessel has been docked for more than five years awaiting cash for repairs. What the ecologists do know is that the red claw migrates deep into river systems.
"We have to do a lot more work on the crayfish invasion," Phiri told The Associated Press.
"We don't know yet what will happen to the ecosystem. It is an omnivore and eats detritus, rotting vegetation, dead fish, the eggs of bream and other aquatic life as well as all the organisms that are crucial in the whole ecological chain," he said.
Nor is it known exactly how many crayfish are in Kariba lake. Phiri says they are most visible breeding unchecked close to human settlements, harbors and slipways for boats. Kariba's "kapenta" fish, a tiny tropical whitebait or sardine that has become a staple food, was also introduced into the lake but does not migrate because it only lives in deep water lake conditions.
The red claw from Australia was first "farmed" in neighboring Zambia but has already found its way deep into that country's lake tributaries where its worrying impact is also being urgently tracked.
The solution to the crayfish crisis, said Phiri, seems to lie in commercial exploitation in traps similar to those used to catch marine lobster.
In stores in Harare, it sells for $9 a kilogram (2.2 pounds), $12 still alive in fish shop aquariums, and far more in upmarket restaurants patronized by the wealthy well-traveled elite and Zimbabwe's growing Chinese community.
Phiri said impoverished villagers capture the red claw and relocate to water closer to urban markets in central Zimbabwe.
Neighboring South Africa has banned commercial operations and breeding of the still water crustacean in Argentina, Mexico and Australia is strictly controlled for environmental reasons.
"We don't have the resources on the ground to license or police exploitation on the right scale at Kariba," said Phiri. "The important thing is we don't want people to introduce it elsewhere."


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The time has come for you to ask everything you ever wanted to ask, but didn't have the chance.
Next monday, October 26th, 2PM ET, AMA with Fábio Moon and me at reddit.
Friday, October 23, 2015
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015
TWO BROTHERS in New York.
Nothing happens out of the blue and it's easy to loose track of time when you spend so many years working on the same project. You may forget all the other things that happened during those years, what has changed since the last time you were there. Last time we were in New York was in 2010, we had just released the last issue Daytripper. I can say for sure that everything changed for us after that book.
Five years later, we were back in New York with an Eisner and Harvey awarded book that spent four weeks on the top of The New York Times bestsellers list, published in twelve languages, respected and beloved by authors, critics and readers. And we were there to release our new book, TWO BROTHERS.
We began our trip with the right foot, with a discussion and signing session at Barnes & Noble in Tribeca. We arrived half an hour earlier to let our anxiety steam a little down, and when we finally began talking with the audience, we were warmly welcomed by everyone, always paying attention and full of interesting questions. Everyone present left inspired and happy, with their books signed, glad they were there, being part of that special moment. Right there, the book was out on the open, it was free. We could finally relax a little and recharge for the next four days that awaited us.
We love conventions, the interaction with the readers, meeting new creators, the adrenaline of selling your own books and sharing the passion for your work with everyone who stops at your table. We've been to four different conventions in the U.S. this year and we could see what they have in common, the differences, the artists that go to every each one of them, the publishers, the T-shirt/Toys/Light Saber stores, the cosplayers. Bigger and smaller events. New York Comic Con has grown a lot in the last five years since we've been there, specially the Artist Alley. It was great returning to the crazy frenzy of tabling, specially with a fresh new book that would only come to the stores the following week.
We sold 100 copies of Two Brothers in two days. Dark Horse had more books shipped overnight for the weekend to have it at their booth. We were rarely not busy on our table. With a career of almost 10 years in the U.S., readers had a lot of different stuff for us to sign, but what brought most of them there was Daytripper. The single issues, the trade, the deluxe hardcover edition. But most importantly, what the story meant to each one of them. A book that remains with the readers after they finish reading it, one that is constantly given as a gift for loved ones, one that is the entryway to comics to so many people.
Saturday was our busiest day and we were barely at our table. We had our spotlight panel in the morning, a signing session at the Dark Horse booth, followed by five interviews about the new book. After all that, we waited an extra hour at the booth just so we could give our book personally to Frank Miller. It's great to have idols that inspired and influence you. On the very few occasions we happen to meet ours, we make sure to show the respect they deserve. We have a successful career, our work, our fans, but it's always good to remember we have still a long road ahead of us.
Life is made of choices, and we've chosen to go to New York to release our new book. It was a group effort to guarantee the books would be there in time, to set up an event on the bookstore, to get us a table at Artist Alley and a spotlight panel on the official program. We bought the tickets, the convention and the publisher got us the hotel rooms. We spent almost a week in New York without doing any sightseeing, no shopping, nothing a tourist is encouraged to do so easily there. We went there to release the new book and we had to return right away, for work awaited us.
I'm not sure when we'll be back in New York, but I am in no hurry. The new book's journey has begun and we were glad it happened there. Today, the book arrives on every comics shop around the U. S., and many other places that buy and read comics published on the American market. The book has already been released in Brazil and in France, and in two weeks it will be released in Italy (at Lucca, our next trip), but I feel like from now on, the book will really reach the whole world. It's just a matter of time.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015
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7PM - TWO BROTHERS release, discussion and signing at Barnes and Noble Tribeca
Here it is. The best way to kick off this incredible week. We'll answer questions, talk about the production of the book and continue to spread our love for comics, and we'll sign your books.
THURSDAY - October 8
1PM-1:45PM - Casanova signing at the Image booth
FRIDAY - October 9
8PM - Image Comics NYCC Afterparty at Bowlmor Lanes. You can buy tix here.
SATURDAY - October 10
11AM - Spotlight on Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá - Different is Cool
Room 1A18
Eisner Award winners, Brazilian Wonder Twins Gabriel Bá (Daytripper, Umbrella Academy) and Fábio Moon (Daytripper, Casanova) have returned for a new collaborative original graphic novel with Two Brothers from Dark Horse Comics. Join them as they share their experiences, both inside and outside the US comics market and invite young creators and readers to a discussion about career choices, foreign languages, exotic places and how the best way to make it big might not be by doing what everyone wants, but by doing what only you can do.
1PM-1:50PM - Signing at the Dark Horse booth.
We'll be at the show every day. If we're not on one of the above events, we're probably at our table (Y1) at the Artist's Alley, selling exclusive copies of TWO BROTHERS, prints and original art.
See you there.
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Labels: Barnes and Noble, casanova, Dark Horse, Fabio Moon, Gabriel Bá, Image, NYCC, two brothers, umbrella academy
Thursday, October 01, 2015
Drawing TWO BROTHERS
a short video we made for the brazilian blog when we released the brazilian edition of TWO BROTHERS.
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March 19, 2004 Librarian of Congress Names 50 New Recordings to the National Recording Registry
Contact: Sheryl Cannady (202) 707-6456
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced the second annual selection of 50 sound recordings to the National Recording Registry. Under the terms of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, the Librarian is responsible for annually selecting recordings that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Registry recordings must be at least 10 years old. Nominations for the registry were gathered from members of the public, who submitted suggestions online (www.loc.gov/nrpb), and from the National Recording Preservation Board, which comprises leaders in the fields of music, recorded sound and preservation. The board also assisted the Librarian with the review of nominations.
In announcing the registry, the Librarian called the selection of the National Recording Registry "a difficult, but absorbing task. The number and range of recordings to consider is great - and a tribute to our extraordinarily rich and varied sonic history. This year's list attests to the diversity of significant recorded sound in our lives - not only music of many types, but political addresses, comedy, sports, poetry, sermons, and machinery."
Like the inaugural selections, those for 2003 celebrate many milestones in the history of sound recording in America:
- The first Bubble Book (the first children's book bound with recordings);
- The best-selling Okeh Laughing Record of 1922, a comic novelty recording;
- Guy B. Johnson's field recordings of African Americans in the 1920s;
- The set of recordings that represent a full day of radio broadcasting from station WJSV in Washington, D.C. (the first time a complete day of broadcasting was recorded);
- Anne Brown and Todd Duncan as original cast members of "Porgy and Bess";
- The first broadcast of "A Prairie Home Companion";
- The radio broadcast of fourth game of the 1941 World Series;
- The first "foreign" selections named to the registry, including the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle, conducted by Georg Solti to celebrate their influences on American culture and the global recording industry;
- The work of two prominent audio documentarians - the recordings of steam locomotives by O. Winston Link and "New York Taxi Driver" by Tony Schwartz.
The creation of the National Recording Registry is one part of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, legislation that promotes and supports audio preservation. The registry celebrates the richness and variety of the nation's audio legacy and underscores the responsibility to assure the long-term preservation of that legacy so that it may be appreciated and studied by generations to come.
On behalf of Congress and the National Recording Preservation Board, the Library of Congress is conducting a study on the state of audio preservation and will develop a comprehensive national recording preservation program, the first of its kind. The study encompasses the current state of sound recording archiving, preservation, restoration activities and access to those recordings by scholars and the public. The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is assisting the Library in conducting the audio preservation study.
In January 2004, the Library and CLIR sponsored an audio preservation engineers roundtable - a two-day discussion of methodologies and procedures for preservation reformatting of at-risk discs and tapes. Fifteen audio preservation engineers from across the nation attended. As a result of the discussions, a number of documents will be published, including a list of audio reformatting common practices, an outline of core competencies for audio preservation engineers, and a prioritized list of research and testing needs. The National Recording Preservation Board will turn its attention to access issues later this year.
The Library is identifying and preserving the best existing versions of the recordings on the registry. These efforts have received support from record companies and archives that own the best available elements and editions of registry recordings. A number of major record labels have located the best surviving elements of their recordings - from master tapes to metal parts - and duplicated them at no expense to the Library, ensuring that the best existing version is added to the National Recording Registry Collection at the Library of Congress.
The Library is currently accepting nominations for the 2004 National Recording Registry at the National Recording Preservation Board Web site, www.loc.gov/nrpb. The deadline for public nominations is July 15, 2004.
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and the world's largest library with nearly 128 million items, which includes more than 2.7 million sound recordings. The Library's Recorded Sound Section holds the largest number of radio broadcasts in the United States - more than 500,000.
2003 National Recording Registry (In chronological order)
1. Emile Berliner. "The Lord's Prayer" and "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." (ca. 1888)
2. Vess Ossman. "Honolulu Cake Walk." (1898)
3. Bert Williams and George Walker. Victor Releases. (1901)
4. Billy Murray. "You're a Grand Old Rag [Flag]." (1906)
5. Frances Densmore Chippewa/Ojibwe Cylinder Collection. (1907-1910)
6. The first Bubble Book. (1917)
7. William Jennings Bryan. "Cross of Gold." Speech re-enactment by Bryan. (1921)
8. Guy B. Johnson Cylinder Recordings of African American Music. (1920s)
10. Okeh Laughing Record. (1922)
11. Associated Glee Clubs of America. "Adeste Fideles." (1925)
12. Amade Ardoin and Dennis McGee. Cajun-Creole Columbia releases. (1929)
13. Leadbelly. "Goodnight Irene." (1933)
14. Huey P. Long. "Every Man a King" speech. (1935)
15. Marian Anderson. "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands." (1936)
16. Robert Johnson. The Complete Recordings. (1936-1937)
17. Jelly Roll Morton. Interviews conducted by Alan Lomax. (1938)
18. Benny Goodman. Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert. (1938)
20. WJSV (Washington, D.C.) Complete Day of Radio Broadcasting. (September 21, 1939)
21. Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys. "New San Antonio Rose." (1940)
22. 1941 World Series Game Four - New York Yankees vs Brooklyn Dodgers
23. Robert Shaw Chorale. Bach B-Minor Mass. (1947)
24. Budapest Quartet. Beethoven String Quartets. (1940-1950)
25. George Gershwin. Porgy and Bess. Original Cast. (1940, 1942)
26. Rodgers and Hammerstein. Oklahoma! Original Cast. (1943)
27. Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen, Jose Férrer and others. Othello. (1943)
29. Louis Kaufman and the Concert Hall String Orchestra. Vivaldi Four Seasons. (1947)
30. John Kirkpatrick. Ives Piano Sonata No. 2, "Concord." (1948)
31. O. Winston Link. Steam Locomotive Recordings. (6 vol.: 1957-1977)
32. Rafael Kubelik conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition. (1951)
33. Billy Graham. Problems of the American Home. (1954)
34. Glenn Gould. Bach Goldberg Variations. (1955)
35. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book. (1956)
36. Chuck Berry. "Roll Over Beethoven." (1956)
37. Thelonius Monk. Brilliant Corners. (1956)
39. Georg Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Richard Wagner Complete Ring Cycle. (1958-1965)
40. Eastman Wind Ensemble with Frederick Fennell. Winds in Hi-Fi. (1958)
41. Charles Mingus. Mingus Ah-Um. (1959)
42. Tony Schwartz. New York Taxi Driver. (1959)
43. Patsy Cline. "Crazy." (1961)
44. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert Frost and others. Kennedy Inaugural Ceremony. (1961)
45. Judy Garland. Judy at Carnegie Hall. (1961)
46. Otis Redding. "I've Been Loving You Too Long. (To Stop Now)" (1965)
47. The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. (1967)
49. Johnny Cash. At Folsom Prison. (1968)
50. Ali Akbar College of Music Archive Selections. (1960s-1970s)
51. Marvin Gaye. What's Goin' On. (1971)
52. Carole King. Tapestry. (1971)
53. Garrison Keillor. A Prairie Home Companion. (First broadcast of the variety show, July 6, 1974)
54. Bruce Springsteen. Born to Run. (1975)
55. Fania All-Stars. Live at Yankee Stadium. (1975)


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I listed my own number of ancestors in each generation in my post Can you document all names back 10 generations? last night. The intent of the post was to raise the question posed by Tamura Jones comment, and to provide my own research as an example, and state my impression that there are few, if any, completed 10-generation charts (all 1,023 names).
My intent was not to imply that "my tree is bigger than yours" or that researchers who are still working on great-grandparents or great-greats are inferior. The fact is that each of us has a unique ancestry, and some ancestors are much harder to find than others. I am often genea-smacked by the efforts of genealogy colleagues and friends that have struggled mightily to go back five and six generations because of the difficulty of the research - African-American, Native-American, Jewish, and Eastern European ancestries come to mind.
Martin Hollick sent an URL to his blog discussing my post - see http://mhollick.typepad.com/slovakyankee/2010/03/documenting-back-10-generations.html . Thank you, Martin.
Tamura Jones sent me a picture of a 12-generation chart from his private research database that is really full of names - only a few small "holes" in the first 10 generations on the chart, starting in the eighth generation. He gave me permission to show it (it was resized so that names are not clearly visible) - see below:
A correspondent asked if all of my "documented ancestors" are fully sourced. Nope, not even close. I admit to being a name-collector in my early research years, and I'm still trying to fixing that with primary information and original sources. Once in awhile, I find a very helpful resource for one of my ancestral families that leads me to records that proves or disproves, to my satisfaction, my ancestral connection. I include those records in my database. Or eliminate the ancestral connection if the records don't prove the connection to my satisfaction.
I showed a 10-generation family tree chart of my father's ancestry in 2006 - see below:
UPDATED 11 a.m. - added the Tamura Jones chart and comments.


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Family rivalry and not religious victimisation claimed Minorities' Affairs Minister Shahbaz Bhatti's life, according to investigators.
In an interesting twist, the daylight murder in the capital has been attributed to a property dispute between relatives. Police investigators have concluded it was not a religiously-motivated murder in their latest report despite the fact that the Punjabi Taliban had claimed responsibility for the assassination.
Justice appears to be a long time coming for the former minister's family since the murderers have fled the country.
"Shahbaz's murder is said to be linked to a 'chronic rivalry' with relatives who lived in Faisalabad five years ago," revealed an investigator associated with the Joint Investigation Team (JIT).
New clues have led the Islamabad police to a family, who left the country due to the rivalry with the Bhattis, the JIT stated in its latest report. The family was also residing in Bhatti's native town Khushpur, which has produced famous priests and nuns, but some family members are now reportedly living in the UAE. Two or three of them have converted to Islam and are living in Malaysia, said a member of the JIT.
The Express Tribune reported on June 29 that Shahbaz's murder was plotted by al Qaeda-linked militant commander Ilyas Kashmiri. National and international media ran the story quoting the newspaper. All but two of his brothers moved to Europe in the aftermath of the assassination for security reasons.
The murderers are currently in Dubai or Kuala Lumpur according to an investigator. However, their names have not been identified yet. "We will approach Interpol for their arrest," he said.
Paul Bhatti, the slain minister's brother and an adviser to the prime minister, said he has moved his family to Europe. But he did not disclose their exact location due to security concerns. When questioned if his brother's murder was a case of family rivalry, Paul only said that Interior Minister Rehman Malik had told him he had contacted Interpol to arrest some accused from the UAE.
However, there has been no further progress, he said quoting police officials. "I will request Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to constitute a judicial commission to investigate my brother's murder."
Minister for National Harmony Akram Masih Gill said he would take up the issue with President Zardari and the prime minister on August 11, the day they are to inaugurate Shahbaz Bhatti's memorial trust. "Paul will also speak to both dignitaries to convey the minorities' resentment which is increasing with every passing day," Gill said.
Interpol has not been contacted for assistance because we have no clue about the exact location of the accused, said an interior ministry official familiar with the matter.
"We cannot put our case before Interpol without substantive proof," he added.
"Firstly, we wanted to close the investigation but then we learnt that there was a chronic ethnic and property dispute between the two families which led to Shahbaz's murder," said a police official.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 9th, 2011.
@Paul & Jamel
I think, at some extent, some Indian ethnic group can be involved in this murder. As some Hindus reportedly have clashes with Christian Community in Faisalabad and other districts of Punjab. It must be probed.
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By H.P. Albarelli Jr. and Ran Daniel
Over the past several months the world has witnessed the heinous and lethal effects of sarin gas being deployed in Syria, where an estimated 1,500 people died from its effects in just one attack on the outskirts of Damascus.
Yet virtually unknown is the long history of this deadly chemical compound, including its roots entangled with Nazi Germany and the United States' acquisition and exploitation.
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Sarin was invented in 1938 in Germany by I.G. Farben company chemists who were trying to create potent pesticides.
Quickly found to be a lethal nerve agent to humans, the compound was further refined and then named in honor of its developers: Gerhard Schrader, Otto Ambros, Franz Ritter and H.J. Van der Linde.
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After Farben's refinement of sarin, information about its possible warfare use was brought to the attention of Nazi military officials by Ambros, a chemist who was also a member of the board of directors of the company.
Ambros informed the officials that sarin, even used in extremely low concentrations, could be fatal to humans in less than one minute. He explained that the gas rapidly brought on suffocation, and that non-lethal exposure could rapidly produce permanent neurological damage. It was an ideal chemical weapon in many ways, Ambros emphasized.
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Nazi officials responded by initiating the mass production of sarin as a weapon of mass destruction. The Nazis stockpiled thousands of sarin-filled artillery shells, some weighing more than 1,000 pounds.
In addition to sarin, wartime researchers at Farben also invented Zyklon B, the lethal gas used to murder millions of Jews in German concentration camps. Indeed, Farben's Zyklon B manufacturing plant was located on the grounds of the infamous Auschwitz camp.
Ambros, who forced thousands of camp inmates to work as slave laborers in building and operating the plant, oversaw its construction and management.
In May 1943, following Germany's heavy losses at Stalingrad, Nazi leaders began to seriously explore the possible use of sarin and tabun nerve gases on the Russian front.
Ambros met with Adolph Hitler and erroneously informed the Nazi fuehrer that the allies were fully knowledgeable about German nerve gases and that if Germany were to use such weapons the allies would respond in kind with their own sarin bombs.
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In fact, the allied forces, at this point in time, knew nothing about the Nazi's production of sarin bombs.
Hitler stormed out of the meeting and Germany never used nerve gases, but Farben plants continued to mass-produce sarin weapons.
The company also continued to conduct extensive experiments with sarin as a nerve agent.
Later, after the war, it was revealed during the Nuremberg trials that, early during the war, the Nazis, dissatisfied with sarin experiments on small animals, began to use apes imported at a high cost from other countries. Because so many apes died in transit to Germany, the Nazis then decided to only experiment on Jews in the concentration camps. A post-war British intelligence report states that Ambros and Farben officials "justified the experiments not only on the grounds that the inmates of concentration camps would have been killed anyway by the Nazis, but also on the grounds that the experiments had a humanitarian aspect in that the lives of countless German workers were saved thereby."
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At about the same time that Ambros was meeting with Hitler, one of his associates, SS Capt. Alois Brunner became a close assistant to Nazi Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Holocaust, later apprehended, tried and executed in 1962 by the Israelis.
Brunner, a virulent anti-Semite, was selected by Eichmann to oversee the Drancy internment camp outside of Paris, where he was responsible for the deportation of nearly 130,000 Jews, many young children, who were gassed to death in concentration camps.
Brunner was relentless in his hunt for Jews. According to historian Julian Jackson, in Nice, Brunner routinely dispatched teams of SS officers to drive the streets picking up any men they thought was Jewish. Those snatched off the sidewalks were forced to undress and if circumcised were arrested on the spot and trucked off to the Drancy camp.
Following the war, in 1946 Ambros was arrested by the U.S. Army, but then allowed to continue work as a senior research scientist at Germany's largest chemical conglomerate, BASF.
Ambros was placed on trial in 1948 at Nuremberg for war crimes, including slavery and mass murder. Found guilty, his sentence was only eight years imprisonment. Incredibly, Ambros was released after serving only four years. Ambros was promptly recruited by the U.S. Army Chemical Corps at the direction of John Jay McCloy, the U.S. appointed High Commissioner of Germany.
McCloy was instrumental in the notorious recruitment of hundreds of former Nazis scientists to work with the U.S. Chemical Warfare Corps and various U.S. corporations with strong ties to the Pentagon. The recruitment program became known as Project Paperclip, and it is worth noting that McCloy in the 1930s was an attorney for I.G. Farben. [In 1963, McCloy was appointed as a member of the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of JFK.]
Ambros became a highly-paid consultant and adviser to the U.S. Army Chemical Corps and to American corporations, Dow Chemical and the J. Peter Grace company. As can be expected, U.S. Army biochemists at Fort Detrick and Edgewood Arsenal, both in Maryland, were especially interested in everything Ambros could tell them about sarin and other deadly nerve gases developed by the Nazis, including tabun and soman.
A declassified U.S. Chemical Warfare Service report states: "The existence of G-agents [the U.S. Army's term for nerve gases] was unknown to great Britain and the United States until German chemical shells were captured and analyzed in 1945."
Investigative reporter Linda Hunt, in her book on Project Paperclip, "Secret Agenda," reported that U.S. military scientists found "the German gases so superior that after the war sarin became America's standard nerve gas, while the USSR choose tabun."
Despite consistent claims to date by the United States that it did not know about Germany possessing sarin, tabun and soman gases, declassified British documents clearly state that both the United States and Britain were aware that the Nazis were producing large amounts of bombs filled with nerve gases.
Meanwhile, in 1954, Alois Brunner was tried and condemned to death in absentia in France for crimes against humanity. Brunner had escaped capture by Allied forces. After working briefly under a false name as a driver for U.S. Army officials in Berlin, Brunner fled Germany and traveled to Rome and then to Egypt, where he engaged in arms smuggling and trafficking.
About 1959, Brunner relocated to Syria, where he became a close adviser to the Syrian government on weapons procurement, torture and enhanced interrogation techniques. Former French intelligence officers report that Brunner was a major player in Syria's development of a chemical weapons capacity, including sarin and tabun, and that for about five years he oversaw the procurement of products Syria needed to manufacture its own arsenal of nerve gas filled bombs.
Brunner's life in Syria played out like a Hollywood action film. In the 1980s, after the Israelis became aware of his presence there, Mossad sent Brunner at least two letter bombs, which caused him to lose an eye and five fingers. Reportedly, Israeli hit teams twice tried to assassinate him, while at the same time Israel, France, and Germany attempted to have him extradited. The Syrian regime denied that Brunner was in their country, but in 1985, he granted an interview to Germany's Bunte magazine.
Brunner, accompanied by several Syrian bodyguards, told the magazine that "Israel will never get me" and that he had "no bad conscience" for "getting rid of that garbage," a reference to his sending thousands of Jews to death camps. The magazine also reported that Brunner was a close adviser to Rifaat al-Assad, the brother of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Brunner reportedly died in Syria of natural causes at least 10 years ago, but his death has never been verified.
H.P. Albarelli Jr. is the author of "A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Franck Olson and the CIA's Cold War Experiments" and the recently published, "A Secret Order: An Investigation Into the Synchronicity and High Strangeness in the JFK Assassination." Ran Daniel, an accomplished writer and researcher, lives in Israel.


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By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Diabetes directly affects the lives of millions of Americans and their families. While no cure exists, medical advancements are continually producing new, more effective treatments to control the disease. Individuals who manage their diabetes properly can lower their risk of complications and live productive, normal lives. During National Diabetes Month, we recommit to educating Americans about the warning signs of diabetes, and help those with the condition to mitigate the effects of this devastating disease.
The two common forms of diabetes are known as type 1 and type 2. Type 1 diabetes occurs when an individual's immune system destroys insulin-producing cells. The outlook for those with type 1 diabetes has dramatically improved in the past few decades due to a host of innovations. Type 2 diabetes is the most prevalent form of diabetes, and usually affects individuals age 40 and older, and those who are overweight, inactive, or have a family history of the disease. Every day, 10 children in this country are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes—a staggering statistic that reflects the growing epidemic of obesity in our country.
Preventive care is the simplest way to avoid diabetes and its complications. A healthy diet, combined with daily exercise, has been shown to dramatically reduce incidence of this disease. African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans, as well as the elderly, are at greater risk of developing diabetes over their lifetimes. As a Nation, we must ensure that all Americans know the warning signs of this disease, and if diagnosed, have access to affordable, quality medical care to help control it.
While diabetes is a complex and challenging disease, dedicated researchers continue to make important discoveries. This month, we honor those who have made these successes possible, support those who are battling diabetes, and rededicate ourselves to sustaining Federal investments in research and education programs that improve the prevention and treatment of this disease.
Now, Therefore, I, Barack Obama, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim November 2009 as National Diabetes Month. I encourage citizens, medical institutions, Government and social service agencies, businesses, non-profit organizations, and other interested groups to join in activities that help prevent, treat, and manage diabetes.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fourth.
NOTE: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on November 4.
Barack Obama, Proclamation 8447—National Diabetes Month, 2009 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/287635


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Living near the ocean must never get old for some people, as there's always marine life moving about underneath the surface. And sometimes we're privileged enough to get an up-close look.
Martin Michael captured this stunning video of orca whales surfacing and playing just metres away from Golden Mile beach near Sechelt, B.C. He posted multiple videos on his Facebook page Saturday morning, saying there was a pod of orcas swimming about 15 feet away, and they ranged from approximately 12 to 30 feet in length.
"Orca pod at our beach, fortunately the water is deep here 15 feet out from shore, what an experience! enjoy!" Michael wrote in one of his posts.
The large mammals can be seen gliding and rolling through the deep waters just off the shoreline, moving up and down the coast.


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In the spirit of journeying during periods less traveled, I've embarked to Alaska this winter. Follow the adventures here, and prepare to have your preconceived notions destroyed along the way.
A helmet cam view of snowmobiling in Girdwood, Alaska
When it comes to winter sports, you've got skiing, snowboarding, ice hockey — you know, the usual. And then, there's snowmobiling. Or "snowmachining" as it's known in The Last Frontier. Whatever you call it, there's no question that it's a rush of epic proportions, and while you can most certainly do it in the lower 48, doing in the one that borders Canada and and Russia* provides an entirely different perspective. I've snowmobiled through Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming and in Olney, Montana, and while those were both unique and extraordinary experiences in and of themselves, ripping it up through the Chugach mountains is a can't-miss episode for daredevils. Read on to find out how Glacier City Snowmobile Tours got my adrenaline pumping, or press play on the video above to catch a helmet-cam view of the entire thing!
Girdwood feels a lot further than 45 miles from Alaska's largest city (yeah, Anchorage), and it's home to both Alyeska Ski Resort & Hotel as well as Glacier City Snowmobile Tours. These guys are tucked within the Great Alaskan Tourist Trap shop, connected with the Tesoro fuel station. Tough to find, but well worth discovering. You'll have two main tour options — the 5.5 hour Real Deal Blue Ice Tour (where you'll spot glaciers) — and the 3.5 hour Gold Mine Tour. Those run you $250 and $200 apiece, respectively, and include fuel, gear, a campfire lunch (complete with Reindeer hot dogs and Russian Hot Tea) and a guide. The "guide" part is what really makes it — we had Matthew Moscoso (shown above), an Alaskan of five years and consummate professional on the sled. He was both comical and informative, and frankly, it makes me wish my US history teacher of yesteryear had a shred of his genes. I also got to ride with Chanc Deschamps-Prescott, an award-winning skier (and Girdwood native) who is but 15 years of age, and has his sights firmly set on entering the next Winter Olympics. I can't promise that you too will get the sled with a local hero, but hey, crazier things have happened in Alaska.
I embarked on the Gold Mine Tour, and couldn't have possibly had more fun. The trails were definitely the most challenging I'd seen in my three major treks out, but that also adds to the thrill and excitement. We were able to stop for plenty of astounding photo opportunities of the surrounding mountains (as you can see in the gallery here), and the lunch really was something special. Delicious, and thought provoking. How often does that happen?
As with pretty much everything in Alaska, there's something truly awe-inspiring about doing everyday activities here. Snowmobiling is no different. Glacier City is the only tour outfit that gets to cruise on the trails that we cruised on, so you're literally surrounded with nothing but nature. It's you, your group, your sled, and some of the most intense scenery your brain will ever have to digest. I could go on, but I'll let a bit of helmet cam footage from my journey handle whatever convincing is still required.
[Images provided by Dana Jo Photography]
My trip was sponsored by Alaska Travel Industry Association, but I was free to report as I saw fit. The opinions expressed in this article are 100% my own.


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Iraq: String of attacks across country kills 31
BAGHDAD: Insurgents launched what appeared to be a highly coordinated string of attacks in several parts of Iraq on Monday morning, killing at least 31 and wounding more than 200, according to officials.
The attacks, many involving car bombs, erupted less than a week before Iraqis in much of the country are scheduled to vote in the country's first elections since the 2011 U.S. troop withdrawal, testing security forces' ability to prevent bloodshed.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but coordinated attacks are a favorite tactic of al-Qaida's Iraq branch.
Iraqi officials believe the insurgent group is growing stronger and increasingly coordinating with allies fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad across the border. They say rising lawlessness on the Syria-Iraq frontier and cross-border cooperation with a Syrian group, the Nusra Front, has improved the militants' supply of weapons and foreign fighters.
Nearly all of the deadly attacks reported by police officials were bombings.
They were unusually broad in scope, striking not just Baghdad but also the western Sunni city of Fallujah, the ethnically contested oil-rich city of Kirkuk and towns in the predominantly Shiite south. Other attacks struck north of the capital, including the former al-Qaida stronghold of Baqouba and Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
Windows rattled from the force of a blast in central Baghdad when a bomb struck the central commercial district of Karrada.
In another of the Baghdad explosions, a parked car bomb exploded in a bus station in the eastern suburbs of Kamaliya, killing four. Qassim Saad, an Arabic language teacher in an elementary school nearby, said his pupils began screaming as the explosion shattered windows and sparked panic.
He described a chaotic scene where security forces opened fire into the air upon arrival to disperse onlookers. Wooden carts carrying vegetables, fruit and other goods were overturned and stained with blood, and several nearby buildings and shops were damaged by the blast.
Like many Iraqis after major bombings, he criticized the government for not doing enough to prevent deadly attacks.
"I blame those who call themselves politicians in government (and) the security forces … for this bad security situation. They are doing nothing to help the people and are only looking out for their benefits," he said.
A total of 10 were killed in the Baghdad attacks.
In Kirkuk, an oil-rich city about 290 kilometers (180 miles) from Baghdad, police said nine people were killed when six car bombs went off simultaneously. Three bombs exploded downtown — one in an Arab district, one in a Kurdish one, and one in a Turkomen district. The rest went off elsewhere in the city, which is home to a mix of ethnic groups with competing claims.
In addition to the bombings, drive-by shooters armed with pistols fitted with silencers shot and killed a police officer while he was driving his car in the two of Tarmiyah, 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Baghdad.
Hospital officials confirmed the casualty tolls. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release details to reporters.
Although violence in Iraq has fallen from its peak in 2006 and 2007, bombings and other attacks remain common.
The blasts struck a day after a series of attacks left 10 people dead, including a Sunni candidate running in the upcoming provincial elections. The most serious attack Sunday happened when a booby-trapped body exploded among a group of policemen, who were trying to inspect the body that was left in the street.
Iraqis vote Saturday in what will be the country's first election since U.S. troops withdrew in December 2011. The election, for local-level officials, will be a test of the strength of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's political bloc as well as the ability of security forces to keep the country safe.


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A procedure that allows homeowners facing foreclosure to transfer the property voluntarily to the lender in exchange for a release of the mortgage is known as a deed in lieu. Often, the lender will also agree to pardon the amount of the loan that is not covered by the sale proceeds which remains after the house is sold. This is one option that homeowners facing foreclosures sometimes consider. Stephen K. Hachey, a deed in lieu attorney in St. Petersburg, can help you to negotiate a deed in lieu in order to avoid foreclosure.
Know Your Rights Before You Act
As with any situation, there are advantages and disadvantages to deed in-lieu. Some of the benefits to the process include being discharged from personal obligation of the loan and averting the process of a foreclosure. Also, your credit will not be as adversely affected as it is after a foreclosure and you will not be left with the duty of trying to sell your home.
Of course, with advantages, come the disadvantages including that homeowners with home equity loans, second mortgages, or tax liens may not qualify for deed in lieu. A lot of lenders prefer payment over real estate, meaning your lender may not agree to a deed in lieu. Unfavorable tax consequences may also impact you if you choose a deed in lieu. Speak with an experienced St. Petersburg deed in lieu attorney to discover whether the pros outweigh the cons.
How can a deed in lieu lawyer help?
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What are the benefits of deed in lieu?
- You are immediately released from the personal indebtedness associated with the loan.
- You avoid the public notoriety of a foreclosure proceeding and may receive more generous terms than you would in a formal foreclosure.
- Your credit will be affected less than in a foreclosure.
- You will not be responsible for trying to sell your house.
What are the disadvantages of deed in lieu?
- You may not qualify if you have a second mortgage, home equity loans or tax liens
- Many lenders want cash, not real estate
- There may be negative tax consequences, dependent upon the amount of forgiven debt
Stephen K. Hachey, an experienced deed in leiu attorney, can not only help you determine your options, but he can advise you on the best course of action based on your unique situation. And with offices spread out across Tampa Bay, he's available and accessible to begin helping you today. The Law Offices of Stephen K Hachey proudly serves Tampa, St Petersburg, Clearwater, Wesley Chapel, Brandon, Riverview, South Tampa and everywhere in between.
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Free Mahjong game !
This is a Mahjong game, a one-player game.
The goal is to clear the board by removing all the matching identical pairs from the layout.
A valid pair consists of two tiles which are both "free" and "identical" (or of the same type).
In more details, you can remove a pair of tiles if the following condition are true:
The tiles are identical (e.g. 4 and 4, West and West, etc.)
All of the seasons and flowers can be matched with each others, they don't have to be identical.
Each tile of the pair must comply with the following rules :
- No other tile is lying above or is partially covering it
- No other tile is lying to the left or to the right of it
With many features:
- great graphics, for Tablets and High phones
- auto-save
- 96 levels
- Statistics
- Zoom in/out
- Touch to move the layout game
- Multi-touch (pinch) to zoom in/out
- unlimited Undos


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